Re: How to create independent branches

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Apr 8, 2006, 20:57 UTC
Message-ID: <20060408205747.GT27689@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <7vsloneqtb.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Dear diary, on Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 10:49:04PM CEST, I got a letter where Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> said that...

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> Peter Baumann <peter.baumann@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Another question. I'd like to create a totaly independent branch (like
> > the "todo" branch in git). Is there a more user friendly way than doing
> >
> > git-checkout -b todo
> > rm .git/refs/heads/todo
> > rm .git/index
> > rm <all_files_in_your_workdir>
> >
> > ... hack hack hack ...
> > git-commit -a
> >
> > I looked all over the docs, but can't find anything obvious.
> 
> My "todo" branch is not even part of my main git repository.  I
> just have two independent repositories (git and todo) locally,
> and push into the same public repository.

Wouldn't it be better to separate it to two distinct public repositories as well? It's confusing people and encouraging a practice that really isn't very feasible and practical in Git.

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